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had many ways proved their fidelity to the country: but this was an hour of temptation, & murmuring, as sometimes gods own peopld are inclinable unto, as at Massah & Meribah; thus it pleasd god to exercise his poor Job; yet reserved him fir greaater service afterward, as in the sequel will appear. crossed out. The 15 Novr there befell another great trial to the poor pray. Inds. at Wamesit, they lived very near to Lieut Thos. Henchman , about 2 miles from Chelmsford, & were under ye guard & care if Lieut. Richardson, appointed thereunto by the council. The antecedents to this affliction of the Inds. was this. A barn belonging to Richardson being full of hay & corn was set on fire & consumed; this was done by some skulking rogues of the enemy, that formerly lived abbout Groafton, as we afterward understood, but the Eng. at Chelmsfd. imputed the fact to the Wamesit, Inds. as they had formerly done, by the same man's hay, & thereby brought much trouble upon these poor Ch